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Audio ports on a motherboard explained

How do they work? These days when building a computer system, most people are interested in the specs of the mainboard. After all it is the main component that connects every other component inside the enclosure. It solely determines what type of CPU and RAM you will be using, and what space you have available for additional components. Not many are concerned much with the audio specs as these days they are pretty much well integrated into many new motherboards and come standard with a minimal of 6 channels unless you buy a very cheap integrated board which will at least have stereo sound. The sound chip is usually made by one of the major semiconductor SoC vendors like Realtek, Creative or Intel and is integrated on the board and has external ports for device attachment. Various types of audio ports on motherboards When connecting audio hardware like a speaker system, microphone or Tape/CD recorder to a PC, one of four ports can be used which are:

Deals on light laptops you can save big on in 2023

3 Budget laptops for casual tasks Let's clear things up a bit. Laptops are portable clamshell computers that are battery/AC operated. These days they are called, "Chromebook", "Netbook", "Notebook" and well simply laptops. These small form factor PCs usually run a version of a desktop operating system like Microsoft Windows but some can run cloud-based OSes like Google's ChromeOS or the feature-limited Windows S mode. I should also make it very clear that if you require a "Laptop" computer to do heavy work like animation, video/audio editing these listed here will not perform well unless it's very light versions of these tasks using simple software from the different app stores not anything like Adobe Premier Pro! College students use their laptops in the classrooms to take notes, for homework, general research, curricular and extracurricular activities. This has been the norm for at least the past 12

Safe and reliable storage for all your files

Traditional file storage In the 2000s and the very early 2010s, I could remember reaching for a blank DVD/CD or plugging in my portable USB hard drive to back up my music, photos, videos and documents. Yea what a time it was. We made sure our the lasers in our optical disc drives were up firing and burning and still enjoyed the sound of the drives spinning up like a jet engine when we dropped in a DVD or CD into the tray and closed it. The humming sound of USB mechanical Hard Disks spinning up and the LEDs flashing in a myriad of patterns were assuring to our ears and eyes. It meant that these devices were ready to accept our precious data in bulk transfer with just a couple clicks and drags of the mouse. It inspired us with that comforting feeling that even if our computer crashed or didn't turn on one day, that we could take these storage devices or discs to a friend or family member's PC or any other computer and still see all of our files on screen, safely nested on these p